This miso ramen soup contains pakchoi and a poached egg to add a smooth and creamy addition to the umami-filled flavour of the miso soup base. Easy to make and easy to customise to your personal preferences. This is a great soup to warm and fill you up all year round.

Once upon a time, the most popular type of miso in Tokyo was something called "Edo sweet miso."

With a proud history dating back to the Edo period, Edo sweet miso is an essential component of Edo-style dishes such as Yanagawa nabe, a hot pot dish made with pond loach. Even now, it is cherished by miso afficionados such as professional chefs, despite the dominant presence of miso from the Shinshu region in today's market.

Cherry tomatoes and powdered cheese in miso soup may take some by surprise, and all the more so if the process begins by cooking "shimeji" mushrooms in water instead of making soup stock with dried kelp.

"These ingredients happen to release the umami (savory) elements," says Sally Hiramatsu, the 28-year-old "science-based cooking expert," who has a talent for conveying the mechanisms of how tastiness comes about through cooking from a scientific perspective.

An infinite world of flavor and texture can be found in a bowl of seemingly simple miso soup.Cooking expert Yoshiharu Doi suggests going beyond the popular ingredients for miso soup, including tofu, “wakame” seaweed, daikon and “aburaage” (thin slice of deep-fried tofu).

Hiyajiru is a cold soup seasoned with miso and other flavors that has toppings. The soup feels smooth in the throat, and is a good way of getting nutrition in the hot weather when you’ve lost your appetite.

Grilled sablefish ("gindara") pickled in Saikyo miso is the most popular dish among members of the Japanese national soccer team, says Yoshiteru Nishi, the chef who cooks for them.“Blue fish such as mackerel is a 'like it or hate it' sort of ingredient, but this dish disappears in no time even if I prepare enough for more than double the number of team members,” he says.

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